Luke 6:37 (WEB)

Passage

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Nearby Context

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Luke 6:36 “Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Luke 6:37 Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Luke 6:39 He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "condemn", "judge", "judged", "condemned", and "free". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "condemn" and "judge", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 36's "Therefore be merciful even as your Father..." into verse 38's "Give and it will be given to...", so "condemn" and "judge" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "condemn" and "judge" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.